The 1902 college football season rankings included a ranking by Caspar Whitney for Outing and a top-sixteen rating in The Sun.
Caspar Whitney Writing for Outing, alongside his All-America Eleven for 1902, Caspar Whitney ranked the top twenty-eight teams in the country at the conclusion of the season.
Whitney is designated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a "major selector" of national championships, and his contemporary rankings in Outing for 1905–1907 are included in the NCAA college football records book.
Rank Team Record 1 Yale 11–0–1 2 Harvard 11–1 3 Army 6–1–1
The Sun
In December 1902, New York City newspaper The Sun published a ranking of football teams.
Rank Team Record 1 Yale 11–0–1 2 Princeton 8–1 3 Harvard 11–1 4 Army 6–1–1 5 Penn 9–4 6 Carlisle 8–3 7 Cornell 8–3 8 Bucknell 6–4 9 Amherst 7–3 10 Dartmouth 6–2–1 11 Navy 2–7–1 12 Lafayette 8–3 13 Brown 5–4–1 14 Syracuse 6–2–1 15 Columbia 6–4–1 16 Lehigh 7–3–1
See also
1902 College Football All-America Team
References